IPOS will be introducing process and fee changes for patents,
trademarks, registered designs and plant varieties protection, in
line with the Intellectual Property (Amendment) Act 2022 that was
approved by Parliament on 12 January 2022. The legislative
amendments and official fee updates were slated to come into effect
on 29 April 2022. However, in a recent announcement by IPOS, the
implementation date of these changes has been postponed until 26 May 2022.
IPOS will also be introducing a new Intellectual Property (IP)
filing system – IPOS Digital Hub, which will replace the
existing e-services platform, IP2SG. The new IP filing
system will be launched on 2 June 2022, instead of 4 May 2022 as
originally announced.
